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The Book of Daniel is a biblical apocalypse authored during the 2nd century BC, and set during the 6th century BC. [1] The work describes "the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon "; [2] in doing so, it interpolates a portrayal of a historical prophecy being fulfilled with a prediction of future cosmic and political ...
A re'em, also reëm ( Hebrew: רְאֵם, romanized : rəʾēm ), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible. [note 1] It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew ), [citation needed] "wild ox", "wild bull", "buffalo" or "rhinoceros". [1] Natan ...
One such story about Daniel is the book of Susanna, which appears in two slightly different versions: the Old Greek version, the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and the version of Theodotion, who produced a slightly different Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible in the second century C.E.
Daniel's final vision is set in "the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia": this marks 70 years since Daniel's own captivity began (606 BC), and thus the fulfillment of Jeremiah 's prophecy that the exile would last 70 years. [19] Chapter 11, the centre-piece of the revelation, gives a broad sweep of history from the 6th century BC to the 2nd ...
The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; [a] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah. [1] [2] The Book of Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and Nephilim ...
The following is a list of women found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. The list appears in alphabetical order.
The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (1926) is a collection of 17th-century and 18th-century English translations of some Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and New Testament Apocrypha, some of which were assembled in the 1820s, and then republished with the current title in 1926.
Daniel (biblical figure) Daniel ( Aramaic and Hebrew: דָּנִיֵּאל, romanized : Dānīyyēʾl, lit. 'God is my Judge'; [a] Greek: Δανιήλ, romanized : Daniḗl; Arabic: دانيال, romanized : Dāniyāl) is the main character of the Book of Daniel. According to the Hebrew Bible, Daniel was a noble Jewish youth of Jerusalem taken ...